featuring
Izzee Misri on Bass
Kenny Stone on Drums
John Mizarolli on Guitar & Vocals
UKs Leading
Blues-Rock
Guitar Virtuoso
John Mizarolli
Listen to the Best Blues Rock Guitar Album to be released in the UK for 3 Decades! Crank your speakers, relax and enjoy 17 Tracks!
Dont Preach To Me ROCK METAL |
Dark Space METAL ROCK |
Aint Nobody Gonna Bring Me Down HENDRIXY |
Only One Way Out ELECTRIC SOUL BLUES |
Theres A Traitor Here Among Us ETHNIC ROCK |
All Ive Got Is Love ELECTRIC BLUES |
Chill Out CLASSIC BLUES ROCK |
Genie EXPERIMENTAL ROCK |
It Happened To Me CLASSIC ROCK |
Im Gonna Ressurect My Love For You ROCK SOUL BALLAD |
Mistaken Identity ROCK |
Time Dont Wait ROCK |
Walk Away ROCK |
You Cant Run BLUESY ROCK |
Youre So Crude ROCK |
Voodoo Child JIMI HENDRIX |
I Cant Take The Pace ROCK |
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Izzee Misri - Bass
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Kenny Stone - Drums
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John Mizarolli Guitar & Vocals
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His guitar talents have been compared to such greats as Clapton, Jeff Beck, Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen. He was born in Fulham, London, England and took up the guitar when he was 7. He has been in bands since the age of 12. At 21 he left England for the USA and spent 4 years on the Hollywood music scene. Endless gigs, tours and recording sessions across USA & Canada gained him the needed experience to develop guitar techniques across a large musical spectrum. He was lucky to be at the centre of the jazz-funk and jazz-rock movement in LA around 1974 as it was being created. He studied with Caldera's guitarist Jorge Strunz, who developed John's jazz awareness a great deal. He also gigged with names like Canned Heat, The original Big Joe Turner, The Platters and was developed in the studio by Little Richard's bassist and keyboard player. John spent a long time on the black music scene. Although versed in classical, jazz, blues, funk, african, greek and gypsy influences, his first love is rock as he finds the energy and electricity of rock the closest to his heart in terms of total expression and communication. John has enjoyed songwriting since very young and finds it the most natural of his talents, although he is better known for his phenomenal guitar technique. In 1978 John returned to England after spending some time in Jamaica resting and obviously absorbing the reggae vibes. John is also famous in England as a teacher in improvisation and his revolutionary Spirit Mind Body method for improvisation has been noted by jazz pioneers as a much-needed innovation on the teaching scene. Yes, ZEN IMPROVISATION. He was asked to write a book on his method but claims it would take him 2 whole years totally dedicated to the work to successfully complete as he is a perfectionist. So far he has taught some 27000 semi-pro and pro guitarists over 25 years in the UK! |
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John was born in Fulham, London UK. His parents were from Cyprus and emigrated to the UK in the early 50's. They left an island wartorn and soon became refugees during the 1974 invasion. His roots were from many neighbouring lands as Cyprus is the crossover between africa, asia and europe. He has bloodlines in gypsy, greek-cypriot, egyptian, ethiopian and italian. His mother came from a small village called Leonarisson, his father was from another village in Kyrenia called Karavas. John's father left home at the age of 12 and became amongst other things a tailor by profession whilst learning music and acting. John's father played classical guitar, trumpet and mandolin and spent many years studying and reading classical guitar pieces by Segovia and worked with some of the best composers in the middle-east. He was also a singer and troubadour and travelled many places on the island of venus performing old cypriot folk songs. His mother came from a family of 13 that worked in tobacco fields as children and eventually worked in the rag trade in London as well. John suffered greatly during the british coal pollution years between 1952 and 1963 when he had acute asthma for 10 years. He was a Great Ormond Street Hospital survivor and in 1 year over ¼ of a million british children actually died in the fog or smog as it was called then. It was in reality pure deadly coal pollution. He was written off for dead on 3 occasions and eventually was cured when the British Government took him to France to clean his lungs in La Bourboule a famous cure centre for kids with asthma and eczema. |
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John learned a lot about guitar playing from his father before he had any formal guitar lessons. He was taught to hear and experiment with intervals before the age of 7. At about 9 years old John wanted to learn piano but his father insisted he learn classical guitar so his mother found a local teacher by the name of Frederick Schiller who himself was quite a famous Austrian actor and musician who appeared in film classics like Maigret and the like! From 12 old years on John took up electric guitar and started playing local gigs with his 1st band The Light covering Shadows, Equals and Elvis songs! As fate would have it, next door to John's school legendary 60's bands used to rehearse and John regularly watched rock legends like The Who, The Cream, Ten Years After, Manfred Mann, Pink Floyd, Spencer Davis Group in the class breaks! John reflects ' ..the 1st time I met Ginger Baker I was in my school uniform and we heard this sound like a UFO that had a magnetic-turbo affect on my brain. We went round to St Annes Hall in Kilburn, peaked through the window and I could see Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker rehearsing, of course they were not famous then! I instinctively tried to walk in the door to get a close peek at this strange event then lo and behold we opened the door and Ginger came out looking like what I recognized to be a Beatnik and shouted "Cut out man, cut out man" .. he scared the shit out of me and my schoolfriends and we ran away! .. ' That was probably the beginning of my fascination with real heavy rock music and wild electric guitar bands. I was amazed, confused, mystified, awe-inspired and fascinated ' Then came the 60's ….no more said! The last 20 years leaves him trying to perfect his vocals and songwriting as well as his guitar playing! Check them out! A totally original repertoire of rock. Could this be the best power trio since the Experience? You be the judge! |
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